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• Blog / Hacks

  A Battle Scene to Remember Construction zones are the perfect playgrounds for epic battles

  

  about an event that occured on Friday. This past Friday, the First of ... soon.  Therefore, on my way to get Frozen Yogurt on Saturday, I was super ... on our way to get Frozen Yogurt, we came across the actual battle scene

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • November 3, 2013
• Blog / How to Human

  Surviving My deep thoughts on surviving and thriving at MIT, straight from three years ago.

  

  a plant, I need a certain amount of sunshine to thrive. And on sunny ... study area in Hayden Library, and it's one of the only places on campus I ... of in awe of the fact that I'd apparently survived almost a full year

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • May 11, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Schools of dreams

  

  have given me a good opportunity to catch up on some work-related reading ... the first one: Not the same few colleges: The State University of New ... School of Dreams (a case study of Whitney High School in Los Angeles

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 17, 2004
• Blog / Admissions

  Rrrrrrr. CPW! [UPDATE] CPW Smoke. Don't breathe this.

  

  ahead of me" days. A quick break from 2.001 will be good though, and I ... Internet the other day and stumbled upon a website that touted a video of ... time to time. Let me know if you intend on making one of these blogs, I

  • by Snively '11
  • April 1, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  New MIT Viewbook Is a viewbook as useful to you as it might have been for my (pre-internet)…

  

  Just got back from interviewing design firms. We're embarking on a redesign/updating of the MIT viewbook, a process that will take almost a year ... on the current viewbook I would love to hear them. What do you like or

  • by Ben Jones
  • February 3, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Kick . . . start

  

  Greetings and salutations! If I'm a good judge of time, and I like to ... a year of nothing? Well, 5 Wits is building a new show and we need ... release of the MIT Application at the end of summer.  I know during the

  • by Snively '11
  • June 8, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  sk8 jebby on a skateboard

  

  instead of doing tricks. He got excited at the prospect of a fresh new ... skateboarding.[/caption] Getting on the board Before I get into the rest of the ... you step on it because the laws of physics exist. Underneath the depths

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • June 29, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  one with nothing making peace with unproductivity

  

  -thirds of the way into book 3 of a practical guide to evil. i went on lots of ... 's fine. well, depending on what your view is of "much", this isn't true. i ... hand size. you can have more than seven cards but at the end of a turn

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 5, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  (An Incomplete Guide to) Summer Opportunities for MIT Students Pantsuits, stress, hyperlinks.

  

  , résumés: I was having none of it--my focus was on adjusting to the new ... compensate, we had classes on the day of the career fair this year, which led to a lot of running around campus and scrambling to turn in psets on

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • September 27, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  May we offer you a drink of water? Because you're just so thirsty for what I have to say and all.

  

  just spikes on my bottom row of teeth to keep my tongue from pushing them ... , the 350th day in the 50th week of 2011 and 282 days ago, no big deal. More importantly, it was the day on which early action decisions came out

  • by Ana V. '15
  • September 25, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Dreams How MIT has helped me keep a life long promise

  

  . As time goes on, it is no longer just a question of what you want to be ... suffer from cancer the way she did. That day, I began a binder full of ... devote the rest of my life to cancer research. As time went on after that

  • by Ben O. '19
  • August 22, 2016
• Blog / Athletics

  Less Than Perfect Bottle Rockets, Crossword Puzzles, and Half-Marathons

  

  Part One: On the last Friday of April, a stubby little rocket made ... . Unfortunately, I was crouched on the grass for the majority of the 6 seconds (I ... with one person’s perspective on it that might be of use to anyone

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • May 10, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  East Campus Pros and Cons, as Told by Residents "because EC is home 400ever"

  

  on stuff. ... Of course, in reality, you are missing out on mostly ... 's put it this way: far from the nicest facilities on campus. -- Your ... of a single time where everyone on hall is asleep during the semester

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 20, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Essay-M A representative collection of an MIT student's best writing samples.

  

  You know, a while ago, Mitra did an entry on how to write a winning ... for you regular applicants to start writing your essays for all of your colleges, so I thought I'd offer you a little advice of my own. More

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 27, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  10 Lessons #IAP #Italy #LearningByTeaching #wow #Pi(e)DayCountdown

  

  's motto. In this way, it was good that I couldn't entirely rely on English ... extra classes. On the way back, my flight was delayed again-- but don ... polar vortex commotion, my flight to Milan was one of the thousands

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • March 11, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  Admitted Students Parties Followup

  

  . Thanks Asli! Alex reported on the Austin meeting: It was a lot of fun ... are under pressure and go out of their way to help in everyway possible ... literature (although some clearly were not good in studies at all - one of them

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 30, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  I Hate the Last but at least, I'm trying not to

  

  Paige, On behalf of the Admissions Committee, it is my pleasure to offer ... will be here in two years to start working on my Ph.D, most of my friends ... bloggers" tab on the MITAdmissions website. I wanted this to be my official

  • by Paige B. '24
  • May 22, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Taking 3 math classes this semester as someone who isn't a fan of math

  

  clear line of logic, y'know? But on the other hand, my feelings towards ... classes go by."]6.042,[/annotation] which I call it by instead of the new ... uncertainty, and the field of probability came out of people finding ways to

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • October 3, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Mormons and video gamers Bonding with strangers

  

  On New Year's Eve, my family went out to see Book of Mormon. When ... "yes" on behalf of myself and my neighbor (he shrugged as if he didn ... impressive!) after every joke. And there are a lot of jokes in Book of Mormon

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 3, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Unfolding of Language Your high school English teacher may hate it, but "gonna" really is a word.

  

  now my new favorite topic. I read The Unfolding of Language: an ... contraction, but obviously even I thought of it slightly differently, if only on ... - "gonna" is emerging as a grammatical element, another way of expressing the

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 9, 2006